Maybe you work from home, have a mom blog, or own your own business. Whatever the case may be, the fact is, you might not be taking every opportunity have having a website can offer you.
Have you ever thought about monetizing your website? If you get so much qualified traffic each month, you might be able to earn money from your website, which can help your website pay for itself and even give you a little extra money in the bank.
The First Step
The first step you need to take before trying to monetize your site is to get more traffic to it. The best ways to ensure this are to make sure you have good content that offers value to your users. Whether that’s how-to videos, entertaining articles, engrossing infographics, or whatever you might offer, make sure it’s shareable and likeable by your audience.
And don’t underestimate the power of sharing your own stuff to social media. Building up your following across Facebook and Twitter can help your increase your website traffic if you have solid, shareable content.
You’ll also want to make sure you have a good web presence, making sure your website is visible in the search engines. Optimizing your content for the search engines will also help bring more qualified traffic to your website.
Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to start monetizing.
Here are some of the easiest ways to start earning money through your website.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is the process of finding a product or service to sponsor and promote on your website.
Become an affiliate marketer and you can earn money from affiliate links on your website that point people to the product or service you are promoting. You’ll earn a small percentage of all revenue that comes through your links.
Not a bad way to do it, right?
Google Adsense
If you get a lot of traffic to your website each month, you might qualify for Google Adsense, which allows you to display ads on your website and earn money when people click on them.
Adsense is free to join, and Google will pay you 68% of whatever the advertiser is paying them for each click from your website. Some advertisers will even pay for CPM (Cost Per 1000 Impressions), which means you’ll get paid just for getting 1,000 visitors to your site.
The easiest way to make money with Adsense is to make sure you have a lot of natural traffic that comes from search engines, or even through social media. Just make sure to adhere to the rules, because Google will turn off your account if you don’t.
Sponsored Content
You can post sponsored content on your website to make money. Sponsored content simply comes from outside sources who are willing to pay you to post blogs or other content for them on your website. It usually links back to their own website and mentions one of their products or services.
If you’re website gets a lot of traffic and shows up well in the search engines, you will likely see good success with this opportunity because people and businesses see your website as a good chance to help drive more traffic to their websites.
Sell Advertising Space
You don’t have to go through Google’s channels to have advertising on your website. You can manage and sell your own advertising space to interested parties.
Again, having a lot of traffic is important for this because most people interested in paying for advertising want to make sure that their brand will be seen by a lot of users. The typical payment for this is a specified dollar amount per 1,000 impressions (or views) of the ad.
Don’t have a website yet but now you’re really intrigued about earning money on one? There are plenty of ways you can get your own website up and running. If you want to run a personal blog, you might try a free option like Weebly or WordPress. If you are looking for a new website for your business, you might try a more upscale and customizable option like Smartly Done Websites.
If you have some value to offer to the online world, take the opportunity to make some money from it while doing the thing that you enjoy. You’ll be glad you did.
